First Crusade: A New History - Asbridge, Thomas (Lecturer in Early Medieval History, Lecturer in Early Medieval History, Queen Mary College, University of London)

Drawing on innovative scholarship, original research, and an intimate knowledge of the Levant, historian Thomas Asbridge sheds new light on the first crusade, from its inception to its bloody ending, and brings to focus the true nature of relations between Christendom and Islam and how it was transformed by the attack on the Holy Land.